Last Driving Event Of The Year - Drags

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Went to Rock Falls Raceway this past Saturday with Derek and another Northstar El Camino/Chevelle Club member to do some drag racing. Best run was 12.01@117mph on my third pass. Nearly a 1 sec. improvement over last years 12.99@110. I made 9 more runs trying to get an 11.99 but was denied. This makes the fifth different car I've gotten to run 12.0's. It's uncanny. Just can't get seem to get that extra tenth. There's some kind of invisible wall I run into at the 11.99 mark. I'm sure there's at least 50 hp in my heads with a decent port job so maybe I'll pull them this winter and get it done. They're out of the box GM Performance aluminum oval ports. I want to be solidly in the 11's. Weight reduction isn't an option so I need more power!

Derek's day didn't go quite so well. He started out with a close encounter with a law enforcement officer on the way to the track that earned him a speeding ticket. Then, while troubleshooting a 3500rpm misfire, he took my advice to check his plugs and broke one. Luckily, we found a racer with a fresh set of 8 and he sold them to Derek. The moral of that story? Don't speed and don't take Keith's advice.